diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 10db3eda..b5a1c707 100644
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 			if ( typeof elem == "string" ) {
 				// Fix "XHTML"-style tags in all browsers
 				elem = elem.replace(/(<(\w+)[^>]*?)\/>/g, function(all, front, tag){
-					return tag.match(/^(abbr|br|col|img|input|link|meta|param|hr|area)$/i) ?
+					return tag.match(/^(abbr|br|col|img|input|link|meta|param|hr|area|embed)$/i) ?
 						all :
 						front + "></" + tag + ">";
 				});